sorry for the double post but I accidently hit enter and my message 
posted (im using newsleecher which is more about downloading than 
posting ;) )

so I was wondering if there is an easy way to take a number that 
appears like: 935837 on the HP 48gx and quickly convert it to 
9.35837E5 ?  I have been doing some calculations for a course that 
involves large numbers and I am getting tired of counting decimal 
places with my pencil...  I realize that you can permanently set 
the calc to scientific in the modes menu but I don't want to have 
to switch back and forth...

Thanks!

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In article <31mhd.66562$9b.50418@edtnps84>, dontmailme@fake.com (dRiAn) 
wrote:

> sorry for the double post but I accidently hit enter and my message 
> posted (im using newsleecher which is more about downloading than 
> posting ;) )
> 
> so I was wondering if there is an easy way to take a number that 
> appears like: 935837 on the HP 48gx and quickly convert it to 
> 9.35837E5 ?  I have been doing some calculations for a course that 
> involves large numbers and I am getting tired of counting decimal 
> places with my pencil...  I realize that you can permanently set 
> the calc to scientific in the modes menu but I don't want to have 
> to switch back and forth...
> 
> Thanks!

Make a miniprogram to display it in scientific format.

Something like


\<< RCLF OVER 11 SCI 1. DISP 1. FREEZE STOF  \>>

The RCLF and STOF are to guarantee that your regular display mode is not 
changed by the program.

You can set the 11 to any value between 0 and 11, inclusive, to display 
that many decimal places in scientific notation.

Hello fellow user

> appears like: 935837 on the HP 48gx and quickly convert it to 
> 9.35837E5 ?  I have been doing some calculations for a course that 
> involves large numbers and I am getting tired of counting decimal 
> places with my pencil...  I realize that you can permanently set 
> the calc to scientific in the modes menu but I don't want to have 
> to switch back and forth...

A quick - non permanent way of getting the displayed notation
the way you want it is to assign to a key a program like the 
following. Overall,

\<< 5 ENG \->STR STD \>>
11.0
ASN

which everytime you have a number on the stack and you press
the USER key A it converts the level one number to engineering
notation with 5+1 significant digits (of course you could use 
scientific instead of engineering). It wraps it up into a
string format so that the sequential execution of standard 
notation (assuming that this was the default mode) leaves it
untouched.

!Demeter!

Hello guys

-i guess this is where i get in :-)
-combine the 2 here presented solutions, and you will have the masterpiece
:-)

manjo